Pittsburgh is not an easy city to navigate on foot — the hills, rivers, and bridges make distances deceptive, and what looks close on a map often requires a significant detour. That said, the core areas — downtown, the Strip District, the North Shore, Oakland — are all walkable within themselves, and the distance between downtown and Oakland along Forbes Avenue is a manageable mile or so.
The Port Authority runs buses across the city; service is frequent on main routes and passes through the bus-only tunnels beneath Mount Washington for South Side connections. The light rail (T) serves downtown and South Hills. The two surviving inclines — the Monongahela and the Duquesne — connect the South Side riverfront to the Mount Washington hilltop. Driving in Pittsburgh requires some patience with its famously complicated interchanges; locals joke that the GPS was invented specifically for Pittsburgh. Cycling infrastructure has improved significantly in recent years, and the Three Rivers Heritage Trail provides flat riverside riding connecting downtown to several neighbourhoods.